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String Quartet in E minor, Op. 121
Gabriel Fauré · 1845–1924 · French
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Level 7 · Diploma — about DipABRSM / ATCL · RCM ARCT, with the parts evenly matched
Listen
- Ensemble
- String quartet
- Hardest part
- Balanced
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 25 min
- Composed
- 1923–24
- Era
- Late Romantic
Notes
Three movements; Fauré's last work, completed in 1924
About this work
- Composed
- 1923 September 1924 September
- Dedicated to
- Camille Bellaigue
- First performed
- 1925/06/12, at the Salle du Conservatoire, organized by the Société nationale de musique; Jacques Thibaud and Robert Krettly (violins), Maurice Vieux (viola), André Hekking (cello)
- Allegro moderato
- Andante
- Allegro